If you are not on Twitter, and are fed up of listening to everyone go on it, here are 14 UK information professionals whose tweets should be interesting enough to tempt you to dip your toes into the water:
- @PaulMiller Paul writes not one but two great blogs, one about cloud computing and one about the semantic web. Both topics are going to be massive over the next few years.
- @Pete_Gilbert Pete tweets from the coalface about the trials and tribulations of configuring SharePoint in a University. You get the whoops of joy when he makes an infopath workflow form work and the groans when his servers go down. There is more to Pete than that though: he is an artist who organises art trails in Bristol.
- @briankelly Voted IWR information professional of the year in December 2007, Brian works for UKOLN providing advice on web technologies for the higher education sector. He writes the UK web focus blog
- @Euan Euan Semple has set an example for us all, showing how using web 2.0 well can be great fun, sound business practice, and a contribution to humanity.
- @LeeBryant Lee does a lot of innovative web 2.0 projects in organisations.
- @Karenblakeman Karen is an expert on information literacy and on search.
- @psychemedia Tony Hirst is an Open University acedemic, and a key figure in the Edupunk movement that brought web 2.0 into the way university lecturers, students and administrators relate with each other.
- @lesteph Steph Gray is currently implementing social media in the Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills.
- @PhilBradley Phil is Mr. Search. Everton fan. Got a bit narked with his iPhone recently
- @andypowe11 Andy is Head of development at the Eduserv Foundation. He lists his interests as metadata, repositories and resource discovery; access and identity management; service architectures and Web 2.0; social networks; elearning, eportfolios and the use of 3-D virtual worlds such as Second Life in education. That should keep you going for a bit.
- @DavidGurteen David is a networker extraordinaire. Runs Knowledge cafes in London and all over the world.
- @joiningdots Sharon Richardson knows more about SharePoint than anyone I've met: she used to lead the Microsoft team responsible for it, now she is an independent consultant and trainer.
- @snowded Dave Snowden is the heavyweight thinker of the KM tweetverse.
- My twittername is @Jameslappin
Is there anyone else that you think should be added to this list?
My thanks to Darren Rowse for suggesting the idea
To get started on Twitter simply create yourself an account and start following people. Down load one of the many free Twitter clients to make it easy for you to keep up with their tweets: I use Tweetdeck.
Here is a fun video from Commoncraft that gives an intro to how Twitter works
James, nice list there are also a lot of sector specific information professionals on Twitter. I know a lot of Law Librarians who are very active.
Posted by: James Mullan | 04 January 2009 at 06:44